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The opium debate and Chinese exclusion laws in the nineteenth-century American West

Examines how the spread of opium-smoking fueled racism and created demands for the removal of the Chinese from American life. This study of the nineteenth-century drug-abuse crisis reveals the ways moral crusaders linked their anti-opium rhetoric to already active demands for Chinese exclusion.Read more...

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"While there have been some studies recently on the history of addictive drugs, none have studied the opium trade in the U.S. with this detail, and none have related that topic to the remarkable hostility against Chinese immigrants.... The book helps us understand one of the most revealing, and strangest, episodes in the racial history of the West." - Elliott West, University of Arkansas"Read more...